use the mic. stand up and identify yourself. >> david asked the question whether the president understood economic. i'm asking whether he understands the difference between income or wealth. in the district of columbia there's 80 plus cops who make over $1 10,000 a year, and a good teacher in a bad part of the city teaching something people need can make $145 ,000. rob corp. tell, by the way, they make more than $250,000. do you think they're wealthy? >> i'm not empire -- entirely sure your salary numbers numbers are right. if you looks at what happened to the u.s. over the last thirty years, we had a pulling apart of the income distribution. and the group that particularly well is the top 2%. they quite well when the taxes rose under the clinton years and the situation improved. so the president's economic strategy has been to pursue a balanced approach where we address the fiscal problem that have been building over a long period of time. the economic problem that have been building over a long